Month: 2025-10. This month focused on stabilizing the authentication acceptance tests by reverting a forced dependency update to Apache Commons (3.18.0). The rollback prevents update-induced issues, reduces test flakiness, and preserves downstream compatibility across the govuk-one-login/authentication-acceptance-tests project. No new features were delivered this month in this repository; the primary work was a critical bug fix with a clean revert and validation through CI.

September 2025: Reinstated reliable inline lockout handling in the LoginHandler of govuk-one-login/authentication-api. Restored lockout logic within the LoginHandler to correct authentication/block behavior, updated tests and dependencies, and removed reliance on PermissionDecisionManager and UserActionsManager for relevant checks. Aligned changes with CodeStorageService to ensure consistency across authentication modules and maintain security posture.

Month 2025-05: Stabilized deployment and observability for the authentication API by rolling back the OpenTelemetry integration to a known-good state. Reverted instrumentation changes, removing OpenTelemetry dependencies from Gradle and related environment variables from the CloudFormation template to restore predictable deployments and reduce observability-related incidents. This work concentrates on reliability, maintainability, and risk reduction while ensuring readiness for future instrumentation improvements.

April 2025: Focused maintenance and stability improvements in govuk-one-login/authentication-frontend. Delivered a dependency compatibility fix for jsdom to ensure consistent behavior across environments and reduce flaky tests.

March 2025 monthly summary focusing on stabilizing authentication test suites and preserving release readiness. The month emphasized dependency stability across acceptance and smoke tests by reverting high-risk updates to core libraries, ensuring reliable CI runs and predictable deployments for auth features.

Month 2025-01 focused on stabilizing automated tests and correcting critical user flows in MFA across two repos. Key outcomes include stabilizing acceptance tests by rolling back dependency updates that caused flakiness, and correcting the MFA reset flow by reverting IPV-related changes for a direct IPV_CALLBACK transition. These changes reduced CI noise, shortened feedback cycles, and improved customer-facing reliability.

Month: 2024-11 — Focused on cleaning up temporary internalPairwiseId logging in AccountInterventions workflows to align with data governance and reduce log noise in non-production environments. Reverted experimental logging and removed obsolete methods to improve security posture and maintainability within the authentication API. Changes are scoped to govuk-one-login/authentication-api and tracked via a targeted commit reference.